Cali
Travel Blogs from Cali, Colombia
Valley of the Palms
Jeep to valley where we enjoyed 6 hours of hiking through paddocks, rainforest, across rivers (lovely old and new wooden and log bridges). We were rewarded near the top of the mountains with hot chocolate with cheese made by a woman who lived on the ...
Fake boobs and new friends.
Colombia is everything we were hoping for. After a horrible ELEVEN hour minibus ride, conducted by the craziest driver in Colombia, we checked in. Our hostel is perfect, complete with a kitchen, hammocks, a TV room and friendly people, which we were ...
Rainy day in Cali
... with the high MEA's Around Cali with all around high Terrain mindfully remembering The American Airlines Flightsome years ago, approaching Cali , with the complacement Crew having made and FMS entry error and then while executing an escape maneuver with ...
In Search of Family
... ", the corn bread and cheese, this time with chilli, that we were first introduced to in San Augustine, and then back to the hostel. Cali did not seem to be the most interesting of city's and, as we could not get in touch with my family, and the hostel we ...
Day 76 - Cali - Muy peligroso
... we did agree to stay. The information lady had suggested two places we could go today, the zoo which was supposed to be Colombia’s biggest zoo or a water park. We decided to let the children decide and they chose the zoo. We took a Taxi at around ...
Cali
... foot on the dance floor, for fear of offending the locals with our pathetic attempts to dance in the self-proclaimed salsa capital of Colombia. We drew a few glances and some of the locals took pity on us, with some of the guys dancing with our girls and ...
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... families... I am just going to enjoy my last day here in Cali. I am going to miss this place soooooooooooo much and all my friends tooo. I truely have made friends for life here CALI YOU WHERE SUCH A GOOD HOME TO ME.... SEE YOU AGAIN ...
Arrived in airport (palmira)heading towards cali
... citizenship since i was born in the U.S. and have never taken out my cedula. An identification card here in Colombia registering yourself. So, after going through immigration and having our luggage searched through we went outside. If ...
South America....check
Stayed in Cali for about three weeks, guided by the one and only Carlos & David. Weekend trip to Rozo. ...
time for some educational stuff
... effusiveness over the darien museum that i found the occasional museum interesting, today manuels mum took me museum hopping - from one of cali{s oldest buildings housing a real live mummy (ok, actually he was dead - and yes, definitely a he) of unknown ...
The Salsa Capital
... Although it was very obvious that the guy just pocketed the money himself, it´s kind of a shame that our final minutes in Colombia involved the corrupt negative side of the country that had very much been in the shadows during our time their. still love ...
Cali - the salsa capital of the world
... the continual rain. I was counting the days until I got to the Caribbean coast where I would be back in the sunshine... In Cali we stayed in a hostel called Pelican Larry which was run by this crazy German guy. The hostel was ok and had properly comfy ...
Cali Colombia-Summary of Trip-Advice/Suggestions
... coins are in the hundreds and the bills are in the thousands. You can use your countries credit card in Colombia almost everywhere and in almost all ATMs. If you are going to use a credit card, make sure you take a 2nd ...
Typico Columbia, Non typical Gringo's
We awake at about 7 am and walk to the nearby cafe. As we order our waitress is speaking about three times faster that a New Yorker! She is asking something of us and after asking her to repeat it twice, I pick up two words, Tipico ...
A few days in Cali
I'd been expecting more and so was really disappointed with Cali. Friends who had traveled the road through before us had loved the place and so I'd imagined somewhere with a bit of zing to it. We're staying in San Antonio which seems to be ...
Incredible colombians, so welcoming!
... us tips and advice about what to do. Just incredible! (Probably a recurrent word you will notice a lot in our blogs about Colombia) Cali est la troisième plus grande ville du pays. Nous n’avons pas entendu beaucoup de commentaires positifs a propos ...
zwei Tages Trip mit vielen Privilegien
... schoene Sachen erleben. Ein spontaner Hinflug, da die Strassen irgendwie kaputt waren und deshalb nicht moeglich war puenktlich nach Cali (7 Autostunden von Bogota ) mit dem Bus zu kommen, daher haben wir 14 Stunden vorher einen recht guenstigen Flug ...
Church Service at a Water Park
... long and exciting slides as well as a zipline over a pool. It was a very cool place to spend the day with the church in Cali. After the worship service my dad gave a class for parents on how to raise children while the singles took care of the kids ...
Cali Colombian Cousins...Three Generations Later
... We would have happily stayed on longer but we still would need to leave some time. My big hope and wish is that, whether in Colombia, England or somewhere else in the world, it won't be too long before we see each other again. We booked a flight to ...
Colombian Cities
... war sehr beeindruckt von den ganzen Stücken die dort ausgestellt waren. Meine letzte Station in Kolumbien war dann noch Cali – die Salsa Hauptstadt :) Salsa gelernt habe ich leider nicht, aber trotzdem einiges gesehen und auch ein paar Leute beim ...
Jaaaa, Kolumbien!!
... diesem Land. Geplant haben wir noch nicht viel, was wir aber nachholen wollen. Erst einmal geniessen wir die aufregende Stadt von Cali, die fuer zwei Dinge beruehmt ist: Die Salsahauptstadt der Welt (eher fuer Larissa) und die schoensten Frauen der Welt ...
A Break from the Cities
... village thing going for it, it also had one other thing. Tyres. Me linz and Andy (Aussie chick we met in Cali) all grabbed a big inflatable tyre and went roaring down the adjacent river. There were multiple occasions where you found yourself with no ...
Moving to Colombia
When I first moved to Colombia, my Spanish was a bit light and I was certainly overwhelmed. I had help finding a place to live, but then discovered the muchacha at the place was stealing me blind, and the old folks who I rented a room from were ...
How a Bus Becomes a Motorcycle
... enough to get by. On my trip from the town of Pasto near the Ecuadorian Border to the city of Cali an agricultural and distribution center in Colombia - where it is thought that roughly 90% of its exports, both legal and illegal, pass through - it ...

